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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect. Monica Danforth HUM 2250 Professor Jones 29 March 2011. Biography. Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin William and Anna Wright. Biography. Dropped out of high school Parents divorced=distant relationship with father
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect Monica Danforth HUM 2250 Professor Jones 29 March 2011
Biography • Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin • William and Anna Wright
Biography • Dropped out of high school • Parents divorced=distant relationship with father • Creativity started with Froebel toys invented by Friedrich Froebel
Early Beginnings • Compared goals of an architect to musician • Rhythm and balance • “Form becomes Feeling” • Opened printing press • Started with mechanical drawings of various structures • $35 a month • Architecture degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison • Architecture not popular at the time • Dropped out of college and moved to Chicago
Chicago 1887 • Large population • Center of shipping and railways • Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871 • Created more opportunities for Wright
Modernism Unity Temple
Modernism • The Larkin Building • One of Wright’s first industrial works • Intended to give workers a more human working environment
How it was built • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM